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Mr Chatterbox is a weak Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer

Movie Review The AI Doc Yesterday Dana, the kids, and I went to the theater to watch The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist, the well-reviewed new documentary about whether AGI will destroy the world. This was surely the weirdest family movie night we’ve ever done. Firstly, because I personally know probably half

My theoretical computer science notes from Epsilon Camp Last summer, I was privileged to teach a two-week course on theoretical computer science to exceptional 11- and 12-year-olds at Epsilon Camp, held at Washington University in St. Louis. The course was basically a shorter version of the 6.045 course that I used to teach to undergrads at MIT. I

Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun

Bring back MiniDV with this Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT In my last post, I showed you to use FireWire on a Raspberry Pi with a PCI Express IEEE 1394 adapter. Now I’ll show you how I’m using a new FireWire HAT and a PiSugar3 Plus battery to make a portable MRU, or ‘Memory Recording Unit’, to replace tape in

Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi After learning Apple killed off FireWire (IEEE 1394) support in macOS 26 Tahoe, I started looking at alternatives for old FireWire equipment like hard drives, DV cameras, and A/V gear. I own an old Canon GL1 camera, with a ‘DV’ port. I could plug that into an old Mac (like the

Experimenting with Starlette 10 with Claude skills

Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments

The best laptop Apple ever made Today I posted a video titled The best laptop Apple ever made, and tl;dw1 it’s the 11" MacBook Air. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } I

Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uvruffty